05/22/2026
Last weekend, Kisses for Kyle hosted a Phillies themed carnival fun night for our families to enjoy together! Adam Crognale, Phillies Bat Boy and Kisses for Kyle’s spokesperson of the year, joined us to encourage & inspire our families who are currently facing a childhood cancer diagnosis. Adam & his Mom Tory became a Kisses for Kyle family in 2014 soon after Adam’s diagnosis with cancer (Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma of Bone) in his right knee at the age of 15. Now a 12 year cancer survivor, Adam shares his journey and how despite the major challenges he and his Mom faced, he developed an inner strength which provides a source of bravery, resilience, courage & seeing how important it is to help others who are scared in the present while navigating uncertain strong challenges. We were all so grateful for Adam’s inspiring words of encouragement & connections while everyone enjoyed a fun filled evening together!
We are very grateful to Mike Menschner with M Entertainment for always showing up helping to host our special evening with lots of fun & music last evening and for our entire 25 years! We are LOVING our new Kyle’s Korner space to have the ability to host these extra special events for our families. So much gratitude to The dlivrd difference & Verde Colab for our spectacular partnership of space and so much more! We are so fortunate to have our longtime partnership with Ross Akselrad - Pulse Entertainment who goes beyond and above year after year. We had plenty of carnival games & costumes to have the fun in high gear all night long! Our abundance of gift donations through Five Below continues to provide so much joy to our families as our children were gifted all night long with every ticket won while having fun playing with our carnival games! Many thanks to Jim & Donna Hall for joining us to provide fun art projects throughout the evening! Thanks to our kindhearted community restaurant partners, our families enjoyed lots of delicious food provided by Raising Canes, Union Jacks, Sams Italian Market, Rita’s Water Ice, Giant, Highland Pub & the Pretzel Factory in Glenside!
Many thanks to Nancy & Deniyele for working alongside me to help make our special evening a great success! Thank you to all of our many volunteers who joined us before to set everything up, helped throughout our event & stayed to help us break everything down! Rich & Simone, Stephanie, Toni & Amanda, John & Andrea, Angela & Sandra, Molly, Hannah, Jay & Romina, Katie & Dylan, Jenn, Joe, Ella & Ben, Mason & Imani!!!